Specially Quotes
108 quotes by 97 authors
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I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the…
— Josef Albers
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To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as…
— Helen Garner
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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck,…
— James Agee
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I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me…
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles…
— Lorenzo Snow
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He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
— Luke Ford
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune…
— Alphonse Karr
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There…
— Camille Paglia
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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person…
— Mark Twain
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A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware…
— C.S. Lewis
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Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
— Jack Johnson
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
— C.S. Lewis
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Look! You got sparklies like akri. He gives all of his to me. He say I look beautiful in sparklies, ‘specially them red ones that…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked…
— Maria V. Snyder
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She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was…
— Virginia Woolf
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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in…
— John le Carre
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At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai.…
— Astrid Lindgren
Who Wrote These Specially Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 108 Specially Quotes, led by these top contributors: